Save Article

Stock Pros Take Another Stab at Picks
After Market Sell-Off Pummels Choices

By

Karen L. Tippett Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 30, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

Halloween came early this year in a ghoulish third quarter.

The seven stocks selected by the region's analysts and money managers for The Wall Street Journal were buried alive in a broad market sell-off. On average, they plunged a stunning 40.5% compared with a 7.5% decline in Standard & Poor's 500-stock index through Monday. In this group,...